------- Comment #5 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-10-07 08:02 ------- More from the thread.
Richard Maine wrote: The Note appears to have been removed from f2003, but see F95 Note 5.6. Apparently it was the interface body case I was recalling rather than the module procedure case. "An interface body may be specified for a dummy or external function whose result has a character length parameter of * only if the function is not invoked. This is because this characteristic has to be specified to be the same in the interface body as in the procedure definition, but in order to invoke such a procedure, the calling routine is required to specify a length other than *." Well, I agree that the wording isn't as clear as I'd like. And I do note the switch from "consistent" to "same" in the above Note. James Van Buskirk remarked "It seems possible to me that the Note was removed in the next edition because it was simply incorrect, not having been vetted to the same standard as normative text in the first place." And Richard replied: "Granted" (At least F2003 deprecates assumed-length functions: They are printed in smaller font size, which might be a reason for removal of the note.) * * * One pragmatic solution would be to close this PR a won't fix and only fix the items in PR 41604. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41603
